Greens with toordal | Sirukeerai paruppu kootu | How to make greens with lentils
Greens with toordal, sirukeerai paruppu kootu is a dal based green leaves preparation. how to cook this healthy keerai kootu / greens with dal with stepwise pictures.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- Siru keerai – 1 bunch
- Toor dal – ½ cup
- Shallots/small onion- 6
- Tomato – 1
- Green chilli – 2
- Red chilli - 1
- Garlic – 6 pods
- Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
- Jeera seeds – ½ tsp
- Hing/Asafoetida – ¼ tsp
- Sambhar powder – 2 tsp
- Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
- Salt – as needed
Instructions
Preparation:
- Chop and wash the green leaves thoroughly three times. First chop the leaves finely and wash them using strainer nicely.
- Chop small onions, slice green chillies and tomato. Peel and crush garlic pods.
- Boil toor dal in a cooker for four whistles to a smooth consistency, mash and keep aside.
Recipe to prepare Sirukeerai paruppu kootu:
- Heat kadai with some oil. Add mustard and jeera seeds. Let them splutter.
- Sprinkle asafoetida.
- Add onions, green chillies. Sauté the onions to pink color.
- Put crushed garlic and fry them.
- Add turmeric powder.
- Add sambhar powder and stir well.
- Now add tomatoes and sauté till they become mushy.
- Add chopped and washed keerai. Mix well. Close the lid and keep in medium flame.
- After five mins all the spices would be absorbed in the half- cooked leaves and the quantity reduced to half.
- Add ½ cup of water and cook the leaves.
- Once the leaves boiled add mashed dal, mix well.
- Add required crystal salt. Give it a boil and switch off.
- Serve with hot rice and ghee, along with papad.
Notes
Tips/notes: 1) Use the same procedure for other greens like arai keerai, methi leaves/vendhaya keerai, pasalai/spinach kootu also. 2) Make sure to boil the leaves before adding salt and cooked dal.3)Use gingelly oil for better taste.
Nutrition
Calories: 60kcal
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